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TIL a ruby is actually just a red sapphire

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wLvQW TIL that Meat Loaf being cast in The Rocky Horror Show was NOT stunt casting, as the musical opened in 1973 and he didn't have his first hit record until 1977. Also, in the musical he played both Eddie and Dr. Scott.
x64l0 TIL In 1962, a "laughter epidemic" broke out in Tanzania and spreading to over 1,000 people. This bizarre phenomenon even led to the temporary closure of 14 schools.
jN5MX TIL Scatman John grew up with a severe stutter. This led him to jazz scat and, in turn, one of the most popular songs of the 90s.
699Om TIL Astronomer George Ellery Hale observed the sun in 1908 through a 60-foot solar telescope and documented the Zeeman effect in a sunspot. Hale’s photograph represented the first magnetic fields discovered outside of Earth
B4DD TIL the burial site of Genghis Khan has still not been found. The funeral escort allegedly killed anyone and anything that could haves witnessed the location of the emperor’s final resting place. The slaves that built the tomb were also slaughtered, as were the soldiers that murdered them..